Charlene Roise

Charlene grew up in Minneapolis, graduated from Saint Olaf College with majors in AmericanStudies, History, and German, and worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago before getting a graduate degree in historic preservation from Boston University. After working in Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, she returned to Minnesota, sold commercial real estate, ran a family business, and, in 1990, became a founding principal of Hess, Roise and Company. She was president of the historical consulting firm from 1997 until selling the business in 2020 and continues to work in the field. Charlene has experience with a broad spectrum of cultural resources ranging from designed landscapes and high-style buildings to bridges, dams, and aircraft hangars. Among her many projects are National Register nominations for Saint George Serbian Orthodox Church in Duluth and Hiawatha Golf Course and Peavey Plaza in Minneapolis.

In addition to exploring the outdoors by bicycle, cross-country ski, and yard work, she recently reached a long-time goal of hiking the Superior Hiking Trail end to end, over the course of four years, with partners Ozzie (an energetic mutt) and Richard. The exercise helps work off the calories from another hobby, cooking. Park Point is her happy place.